ERC Starting Grant · 2024
This project will address a major unsolved question in geosciences: how strongly is our planet's atmosphere subjected to forcing from space? The mesosphere–lower-thermosphere–ionosphere (MLTI) is the boundary of the Earth environment, and as such it undergoes forcing from above, in particular at high latitudes. The forcing includes charged particle precipitation from near-Earth space, associated with electric currents producing Joule heating in the upper atmosphere. It also involves trace gas production in the mesosphere which catalytically destroy ozone – including down to the stratosphere when long-lived species descend to lower altitudes – as well as neutral wind changes and atmospheric…
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